Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Roadworks) Variation Regulations 2017 (SA)

South Australia

Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Roadworks) Variation Regulations 2017

under the Road Traffic Act 1961

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1            Short title

2            Commencement

3            Variation provisions

Part 2—Variation of Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014

4            Substitution of regulation 45

45          Exemptions for road workers etc

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Roadworks) Variation Regulations 2017.

2—Commencement

These regulations will come into operation on the day on which the Road Traffic (Roadworks) Amendment Act 2017 comes into operation.

3—Variation provisions

In these regulations, a provision under a heading referring to the variation of specified regulations varies the regulations so specified.

Part 2—Variation of Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014

4—Substitution of regulation 45

Regulation 45—delete the regulation and substitute:

45—Exemptions for road workers etc

(1)Despite anything in the Rules, roadworks, for the purposes of rule 310 (Exemption for road workers etc) includes—

(a)an assessment or investigation by an authorised person of compliance with a provision of Part 2 Division 2 of the Act in relation to a work area or work site; and

(b)any work (pursuant to a roadworks permit, or an approval of the Minister, under Part 2 Division 2 of the Act) on a portion of road that is a work area or a work site.

(2)For the purposes of rule 310(3) and (4) (Exemption for road workers etc), the Minister may, by notice in writing or notice in the Gazette, authorise speed zoning tests, or installation or maintenance work or traffic surveys, subject to specified conditions.

(3)In this regulation—

roadworks permit, work area and work site have the same respective meanings as in section 20 of the Act.

Made by the Governor

with the advice and consent of the Executive Council

on 19 December 2017

No 351 of 2017

MTR/17/072